Word: edwin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defending his department's policies, Attorney General Edwin Meese said he remains opposed to "an affirmative action process which in itself is discrimination, which in itself deals with people on the basis of their race rather than their qualifications...
...liberal as a jurist. A short list of half a dozen contenders was drawn up. It did not include any of Reagan's old political buddies, such as Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and former Interior Secretary William Clark. The President's instructions had the effect of eliminating Attorney General Edwin Meese from consideration. Meese later insisted that he was not interested in joining the court, but his friends think he will be available for any future openings...
Reveal denied that Singer's appointment was related to this spring's controversy over whether U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese III should receive a K-School 50th anniversary medal for distinguished public service...
...third controversy broke out just before Spring Break. Lawyers and public servants around the nation had a hearty laugh when Kennedy School Dean Graham T. Allison '62 announced that his school of government would award Attorney General Edwin Meese III a medal for distinguished public service. Allison eventually was forced to apologize to students and faculty at the school for his unilateral decision to honor Meese, who quite clearly does not merit such an award...
...coal-black night in March, the kind astronomers like best. At Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory, Princeton Astrophysicist Edwin Turner pointed the 158-in. reflecting telescope first at one distant pinpoint of light in the sky, then at a neighboring one. A few hours later, studying the results of his night's labors, Turner could hardly believe his eyes. "It was a big surprise," he says. "But a big surprise is always a clue you might be on the track of something...